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tipped with rusty ; those on the side white, tipped 

 with rusty ; wing-coverts white, those of primaries 

 tipped with hlack ; primary quills dusky, tipped and 

 slightly margined with dirty white, white at the base ; 

 secondaries and some of the tertials white, the rest 

 of the tertials black, broadly margined with white 

 and rusty ; bastard wing black ; tail centre feathers 

 black, tipped with dirty wh He; the three exterior 

 feathers white, with a small patch of dusky at the 

 tip of the outer web ; the next feather on each side 

 has nearly the whole of the outer web white and the 

 inner web dusky ; throat white ; breast rusty ; rest 

 of the under parts white. This is the Tawny 

 Bunting of Montagu, Bewick and other authors. 

 The Mountain Bunting is the young bird of the 

 year, and has less white than either of the others. 



The eggs are greenish white, with a circle of 

 irregular umber-brown spots round the thick end, 

 and numerous blotches of subdued lavender-purple : 

 this is the description of the egg given by Yarrell, 

 and agrees very nearly with a supposed specimen in 

 my collection, but not at all with Meyer's coloured 

 drawing. 



COMMON BUNTING, Emberiza miliaria. I quite 

 agree with Mr. Blake-Knox's observation, in the 

 'Zoologist,' that the word "Common," as applied 

 to this bird is a misnomer, and that the Yellow 

 Bunting is everywhere the more common. 



The Common, or as it is occasionally and cer- 



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